ISic003530: I.Sicily inscription 003530
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Apparatus criticus
- Text after Bitto and Griffo
Physical description
Support
- Description
- Marble plaque, broken into fragments, of which five survive, which join. The upper and lower left corners are lost, but a small part of the left margin is preserved. A small part of the right margin and the lower right corner also lost.
- Object type
- plaque
- Object condition
- fragments, contiguous
- Dimensions
- height: 17.7 cm, width: 21 cm, depth: cm
Material
- Description
- marble
- Type > subtype
- stone.unspecified > unverified
Inscription
- Layout
- Text is centred, with a straight left margin and an irregular right margin.
- Text condition
- incomplete
- Technique
- chiselled
- Pigment
- No data
- Lettering
V-cut lunate Greek letters, slightly irregular: lunate sigma and epsilon, cursive omega, regular mu with short middle strokes.
- Letter heights
- Line 1-5: 15mm
- Interlinear heights
- Interlineation line 1 to 2: 20mm
- Interlineation line 2 to 5: 15mm
Provenance
- Place of origin
- Messana
- Provenance found
- Necropolis at the Orti della Maddalena
Current location
- Place
- Messina, Sicilia
- Repository
- Museo regionale interdisciplinare di Messina
- A4950
- Autopsy
- None
- Map
Date
1st — 3rd century CE (AD 1 - AD 300)- Evidence
- No data
Text type
commentary
Bibliography
- Digital editions
- TM: 493862
- EDR: -
- EDH: -
- EDCS: 38200016
- PHI: 313652
- Printed editions
- Accademia nazionale dei Lincei, Istituto nazionale di archeologia e storia dell’arte (Italy), e Reale Accademia d’Italia, «Notizie degli scavi di antichità», Notizie degli Scavi di Antichità, 1876, http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/1646037, at (1942), 84 no. 5 fig. 23
- Irma Bitto, Le iscrizioni greche e latine di Messina, vol. 1, Pelorias 7 (Messina: Dipartimento di Scienze dell’Antichità dell’Università degli Studi di Messina, 2001), at 21
Citation and editorial status
- Editor
- Jonathan Prag
- Principal contributor
- Jonathan Prag
- Contributors
- Last revision
- 2/15/2026